Benjamin scarles



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN SOARLES, OF CLINTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE CLINTON \VIRE CLOTH COMPANY, OF SAME PLAGE' METALLIC LATHiNG.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 346,317, dated July 27, 1886.

Application filed February 14, 1885. Serial No. 155,956. No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN SCARLES, of Clinton, in the county of \Vorcester, State of Massachusetts, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented a certain new and usefulImprovemeut in Metallic Lathing, of which the following is a description sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable any person skilled in the art or science to which said invention appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which Figure l is a diagram of this improved metallic lathing, wherein the strands of the double warp-wires form loops embracing two or more fillingwires. Fig. 2 is a diagram of this improved metallic lathing, wherein the strands of the double warp-wires are cross d and recrossed at intervals in the fabric, the direction of the crossing of the strands of ad jacent double wires alternating, a single wire being shown between the double wires. Fig. 3 is a diagram of this improved metallic lath- V ing, wherein the strands oftwo adjacent double warp-wires are crossed and recrossed in the same direction, the strands of the next two double warp wires being crossed and recrossed in the opposite direction. Fig. 4 is a plan view of this improved wire lathing in one of its forms.

Likeletters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the different figures of the draw- 1ngs.

Hy invention is designed as an improvement on the metallic lathing shown and described in Letters Patent of the United States No. 273,412, dated March 6, 1883; and it consists in a novel construction and arrangement of the parts, as hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed, by which a firmer and more desirable article of this character is produced than is now in ordinary use. In the lathing shown in said Letters Patent the double warpwires are crossed and recrossed uniformly throughout the web. For instance, take either strand or member ofa pair of the double warpwires, and by tracing it through the fabric it will be found to be interwoven in precisely the same manner as its corresponding member in either of the other pairsthat is to say, it turns to the left or right and passes over or under the filling-wires, as the case may be, the same as the corresponding wires do in each of the other pairs. It is important in lathing of this character that the warp and filling wires should maintain their position at right angles with each other, both in the web and and after it is applied to the building; but in actual use it has been found that if it is constructed as shown in said patent, although an improvement over the ordinary lathing having single warpwires, it is nevertheless slightly defective, the imperfection arising from the fact that the double warp-wires are all twisted or crossed and recrossed in the same direction, thus producing a uniform strain on the filling-wires in one direction and bending or curving them from end to end or causing them to incline more or less to the warp-wires.

My improvement is intended to obviate this objection; and to that end I make use of means which will be readily understood by all conversant with such matters from the following explanation:

In the drawings, A represents the fillingwires, and B G the warpwvires, special reference being had to Fig. 4. The filling-wires may be of any desired size and length, and the warp-wires of any required gage or size, a suitable number being employed in accordance with the width of the fabric. The warpwires are double or arranged in pairs, and are crossed and recrossed in the web in such a manner as to hold the filling-wires in position with sufficient firmness to enable the fabric to be handled and applied to the building without unduly displacing them.

For convenience of reference I have marked the respective pairs of wal'pwires (shown in the piece of cloth illustrated in Fig. 4) with the letters D E F G H, and it will be seen by tracing the wires of either pair from end to end that they are crossed and recrossed in a direction opposite those at either side. For instance, beginning at the 1eft-hand side of the web, the wire B passes to the right under the filling-Wire a, thence to the left over the warpwire 0 and under the filling-wire b, thence to the right over the warp-wire O and under the ICO filling-wire d, and so on through the web, the other member, O, of the left-hand pair of warpwires passing in each instance in an opposite direction. Taking the next adjoining pair of warp-wires, it will be seen that the wire B, instead of passing to the right under the filling-wire a, passes to the left under said wire, thence to the right over the wire Cand under the filling-wire b, thence to the left over the wire 0 and under the filling-wire d, and so on its entire length, its companion wire 0 being crossed and recrossed in precisely opposite directions. In the thirdpair the warp-wires are crossed and recrossed in the same manner as in the first pair, this order being maintained throughout the fabric. In Fig. l the strands of the warp-wires are crossed between every second, third, or other pairof fillingwvires, the strands thus forming loops embracing two or more filling-wires. In Fig. 2 this improved lathing is shown as provided with one or more single warp wires introduced between each pair of crossed warp-wires. In Fig. 8 two adjoining pairs of warp -wires at the left are crossed in one direction and two adjoining pairs at the right in an opposite direction. I do not, however, deem it advisable to twist more than three or four adjoining pairs of the warp-wires in the same direction, under any circumstances, if the best results are to be obtained.

It will. be obvious that the twisting orcrossing and recrossing of the warp wires gives them a firmer hold of the filling wires, and

thereby tends to keep them, as well as the tilling-wires, in proper position in the fabric when the same is roughly handled, either in fitting it to the building or applyin the plastering. The double warp-wires also aid materially in attaching the lathiug to the furring, as they afford a firmer and much better hold for the staples or clamps than single wires. They may also be arranged at regular intervals throughoutthe web, if desired, and thereby assist in measuring the lathing after itis applied.

Having thus explained my invention, what I claim is- 1. A wire lathing composed of interwoven warp and filling wires, certain of said warpwires being double, with the strands or members thereof crossed and recrossed at intervals in the fabric, one or more pairs of said warpwires having their strands or members crossed and rccrossed in a manner or direction opposite those of one or more of the other pairs of warp-wires in the same fabric, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

2. A wire lathing composed of interwoven warp and filling wires, said warp-wires being double, with the strands or members thereof cros ed and recrossed at intervals in the fabric, the strands of one of said warp wires being crossed and recrossed in a manner or direction opposite to those of its contiguous warpwires on either side,substantially as described.

3. A wire lathing composed of interwoven warp and fill ng'wires, certain of said warpwires being double, with the strands or members thereof crossed and recrossed, forming loops em bracing two or more filliiig-wires,substant ially as described. 7

4'. A wire lathing composed of interwoven warp and filling wires, certain of said warpwires being double, with the strands or members thereof crossed and recrossed, forming loops embracing two or more filling wires, one or more pairs ofsaid warp wires having their strands or members twisted in a direction opposite to the twist of the strands of one or more of the other pairs of warp-wires in the same fabric, substantially as described.

5. A wire lathing composed of interwoven warp and filling wires, said warp-Wires being double, with the strands or members thereof crossed and recrossed, forming loops embracing two or more filling wires, the strands of one of said warp-wires being crossed and recrossed in a manner or direction opposite to those of its contiguous warp-wires on either side, substantially asv described.

BENJAMIN SCARLES.

Witnesses:

O. M. DINSMORE, CHAS. SUMsooE. 

